辛
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(of taste) hot or pungent; hard; laborious; suffering; eighth in order; eighth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1]; letter "H" or Roman "VIII" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc; ancient Chinese compass point: 285°; octa
- HSK 3.0
- Level 5
- Old HSK
- Level 4
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 辛 itself
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 辛
- Common rank
- #1,219
- Unicode
- U+8F9B
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Formation & memory
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Words with 辛
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 利辛县 | Lixin, a county in Bozhou City 亳州市[Bo2 zhou1 Shi4], Anhui | |
| 奥斯威辛集中营 | Auschwitz concentration camp | |
| 辛普森一家 | The Simpsons (US TV series) | |
| 辛集市 | Xinji, a county-level city in Shijiazhuang City 石家莊市|石家庄市[Shi2 jia1 zhuang1 Shi4], Hebei | |
| 基辛格 | Henry Kissinger (1923–2023), US academic and politician, Secretary of State 1973–1977 | |
| 奥斯维辛 | Auschwitz (concentration camp) | |
| 奥斯威辛 | Auschwitz (concentration camp) | |
| 圣哈辛托 | San Jacinto | |
| 史瓦辛格 | (Tw) see 施瓦辛格[Shi1 wa3 xin1 ge2] | |
| 五辛素 | (adjective) non-Buddhist vegetarian (allowing strong-smelling vegetables like garlic and o… | |
| 赫尔辛基 | Helsinki (Swedish Helsingfors), capital of Finland | |
| 千辛万苦 | to suffer untold hardships (idiom); trials and tribulations; with difficulty; after some e… | |
| 辛巴威 | Zimbabwe (Tw) | |
| 威斯康辛 | Wisconsin | |
| 拉辛 | Jean Racine (1639-1699), French dramatist | |
| 高辛氏 | one of the five legendary emperors, also called 嚳|喾[Ku4] | |
| 利辛 | see 利辛縣|利辛县[Li4 xin1 Xian4] | |
| 辛贝特 | Shin Bet (Israel national security service) | |
| 不辞辛苦 | to make nothing of hardships | |
| 施瓦辛格 | Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947–), Austrian-American bodybuilder, actor and politician, govern… |
Sound family
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